If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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